Chapter 717 [Spurs plan to fight with the sun]
No matter how strong the Suns are, there are teams that want to compete with them and keep recruiting.
For example, the Spurs, Cavaliers, Hawks, and Mavericks don't want to see the Suns win four consecutive championships and make history.
There are also teams that have started to rebuild and send away people on the team who don't want to renew their contracts with high salaries, just like the Suns send away Josh Howard, who will "assist" strong teams that want instant strength.
The Bucks sent starting point guard TJ Ford to the Trail Blazers, getting power forward Villanueva and some cash.
The benefits of this trade are clearly the Trail Blazers, who can look at Ford with injury concerns, and if he doesn't play well after a season, they can choose not to renew his contract. It doesn't matter if you send Villanueva, there's no place for him in the team.
Milicic has good physical fitness, and after two years of practice, he gradually gained confidence, averaging 15.7 points and 7.2 rebounds per game. After the Trail Blazers selected Aldridge, Villanueva's position became awkward.
The Trail Blazers traded for Ford to replace "flying squirrel" Damon Stoudayre, who chose to take a significant pay cut after the expiration of his big contract and joined the Cavaliers for 10 million in three years.
The Trail Blazers have Ford, and they can also avoid the huge pit of trading Steve Francis. The parallel world trailblazers have Zach Randolph, they traded Randolph for Channing Frye and Francis in 2007, and then spent 34 million to cut Francis, people don't understand what they think, just to ask for a Fry?
The Trail Blazers don't have any garbage contracts right now, and they don't have to spend unjust money, but they don't have Brandon Roy either, and they don't have a qualified outside core.
The Bulls traded center Tyson Chandler for Hornets PJ Brown and J.R. Smith.
They still sent the "boxing champion" away, and the management felt that Chandler was highly paid and incompetent, but the Bulls did not recruit Ben Wallace with a high salary because they had no salary space, and the team had a high-paid Jason Richardson. The purpose of the deal is to clear up salary space, and Brown's contract expires in a year.
The Clippers renewed contracts with Rademanovic and Kassel, and the contracts are not low, with high salaries and low energy. The Lakers didn't dig into the corner of the Clippers, and they ran out of salary space after re-signing Caron Butler. If the "skier" doesn't come, the Lakers can be regarded as escaping.
The Raptors kept Mike James, and the Pistons kept center Ben Wallace.
"Team Soul" Big Ben found that no team was willing to offer him a long-term contract with a high salary, and was forced to agree to the Pistons' offer of 48 million for 4 years. At least he was loved by the fans at the Pistons, and everyone felt that he was a huge credit when he won the game.
In fact, in the parallel world, the Pistons don't care if they don't have a big Ben, with 53 wins in the 2006-07 season and first in the East in 2007-08, and a slightly inferior record to the Big Three Celtics in the 2007-08 season, ranking second in the East with 59 wins. They also reached the Eastern Conference Finals in a row until the team traded for Iverson and became an underdog.
The Bulls, who had been hired by Ben Wallace for a high salary, were immediately killed, and a year later, in order to get rid of Big Ben's baggage, they were even willing to accept the Cavaliers' Larry Hughes' garbage contract and play three-guard offense on the outside.
Today, I didn't win the championship, Big Ben was blown not so badly, and my fate changed.
The 76ers wanted to put Iguodala as the core and traded the star Iverson. Granger overlapped with Iguodala and Salmons, and if he stayed, he would be scrapped and would not be able to play for a few minutes.
The 76ers opted to trade with the Nuggets, and management asked Iverson to provide a list of teams willing to play, and Iverson chose the Timberwolves and Nuggets.
The Timberwolves didn't have the chips to impress the 76ers, and the Nuggets were willing to trade Andre Miller, Joe Smith and two first-round picks, and the deal went through.
The two draft picks fit into the 76ers' rebuilding plan, and their main goal next season is to develop new talents, regardless of the record, and with Miller in place, the No. 1 spot will not be unavailable.
The Nuggets got a star guard, and after they formed the "Golden Twin Guns", the media blew it up. Experts believe that the Nuggets roster has become very strong, with stars inside and outside, as long as Nene can return to the form of the previous season, the Nuggets are expected to compete with the Suns next season.
They really don't lose to any team when they look at the card lineup, with Camby, Nene and Martin on the inside, and they have a lot of experience in the playoffs; The forward line has Nahoola, Demar Johnson, Creza, Anthony, and has good potential; The defenders have Iverson and Boykins, two small men who are good at breaking through, and their attack power is super strong.
The Nuggets also traded Howard Easley and two second-round picks from the Bulls for J.R. Smith to bolster the weakest No. 2 spot. The Bulls have a lot of outside scorers and don't use JR, which cheapens the Nuggets. The price they paid was not huge, and sending Easley away was tantamount to a clean-up garbage contract.
Guo Xu doesn't think the Nuggets are strong, this team lacks organizers, the overall chemistry of the team is the key to winning, and the style of "Golden Double Guns" will definitely not work, it is the two stars singles.
Against the sun? The Nuggets' lineup is no different from the parallel world, and they can't get past the first round. The Nuggets also lack wing defense experts, and Nene and Martin are better at interior defense, but they have glass man attributes.
In this team, the only person Guo Xu has ever considered being a teammate is JR Smith, and the price in exchange for him is very small. As a young man, Smith was super strong, could shoot suddenly, and could be the team's best sixth man. Later, he gave up, there are too many people in the team to cultivate, how can Smith's "nerve knife" compare to "Yellow Mamba" Roy? He doesn't want to split the ball.
It was the Spurs who really made Guo Xu feel threatened, and they made a small trade to strengthen the wing, using the No. 29 rookie point guard Sergio Rodriguez in the first round and the second-round rookie interior Damir Makta for the 76ers' fringe small forward Danny Granger.
Guo Xu really convinced the management of the 76ers, which is simply **. Granger really didn't play much last season, averaging only 6 minutes per game, and the data looks rubbish, but that's because the 76ers have too many swing people, and he is a high-pick rookie, how can he just give it to the Spurs?
With the right tactical system, Granger has the potential to become a star. He has accurate mid-to-long-range shooting and excellent defense, but his shortcomings are that he has a poor view of the overall situation, his ability to break through is not good, and he is not suitable to be the boss.
The 76ers management sent Granger to the Spurs to strengthen the weakest No. 1 position, and Rodriguez is a talented Spanish point guard known as "Spanish Magician" and "Spanish Chocolate". They misestimated Granger's potential and will regret it in the future.
Granger's partner Iguodala is much better than Rysalmons and Korver. But the 76ers won't trade Korver, who shot 42 percent from three-point range and averaged 2.5 three-pointers per game last season.
Because of Guo Xu, the era of small ball has come early, and players like Korver, who have a single role, have become very valuable, and many fast-paced teams have begun to vigorously cultivate shooters.
Perhaps in an attempt to muddy the waters in the West and not want to see the Suns dominate, the Raptors also "assisted" the Spurs, trading Matt Bonner, Eric Williams and a 2009 second-round pick for Spurs center Rasso Nestrovich.
This is an assist, Narbonna loses every change, let alone a draft pick? The 30-year-old Nesterovic is still halfway through his six-year, $45 million contract.
Finally, the Spurs also signed Liberty point guard Spedy Claxton with a base salary, who previously played for the Spurs and can quickly follow Guo Xu.
Next season, the Spurs intend to fight the Suns......